Lamm’s Ready to Head Reform Party Ticket, He Says
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WASHINGTON — Former Colorado Gov. Richard D. Lamm said Sunday that he is prepared to run for president on Ross Perot’s Reform Party ticket and that his plan to restructure Medicare would include 10 times the cuts proposed by President Clinton.
“If nominated, I would run. If elected, I would serve,” Lamm, 60, who had been a Democrat, said on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press.”
Lamm has been working with other centrist politicians since last year on creating a third party, and he said the Reform Party, which stresses the need for greater fiscal integrity, fits his goals.
“I like them; I’ve liked everyone that I’ve talked to. This is a party that is equal to the magnitude of the problem because they’re not going to promise tax cuts, they’re not going to promise to reduce the gas tax until next January.”
Lamm said he would not accept the second spot on a ticket led by Perot but predicted that the Texas billionaire, who won nearly one-fifth of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, will not run.
Russ Verney, the national coordinator for the Reform Party, said Perot has not asked Lamm to run.
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